Concurrent Sessions by Day
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- Monday, Oct 20
- Tuesday, Oct 21
- Wednesday, Oct 22
Group 1: 10:15 – 11:45 am
Track: Facilitating Systemic Change
M01 Building Your Organization’s Strategic Change Capability
M02 Transforming Complex Organizations: Learning from a Principle-Based Approach
M03 Launching, Running and Growing a Successful OD Consulting Practice
M04 OD’s Value Levers for Closing the Strategy-Execution Gap: Using Group Methods for Extraordinary Performance
M05 Understanding Action Learning
M07 “Sway”—Why Rational People Make Irrational Decisions
M08 Building an Organization of Giants: Creating an Organization Where Everyone Can Do Their Best Work
Track: Strengthening Organizations Through Diversity
M09 Diversity in Art: Transforming Stereotypes
Track: Expanding Leadership Capacity
M10 Authentic Conversations: Creating Cultures of Trust and Commitment
M11 Coaching High Potential Leaders
M12 Leadership Development Drives Culture Change
Group 2: 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Track: Facilitating Systemic Change
M13 Getting Smart About System Change: Developing Whole System IQ™
M14 A Global Change Management Program at Cisco
M15 How to Engage People When You Don’t Have Time
M16 Accelerating Individual and Team Performance Using Authentic Conversations
M17 Stories vs. Statistics: A Primer in Qualitative Data Collection, Analysis, and Reporting for OD Practitioners
M18 Participatory Action Research: Praxis in Doing Global OD
M19 Beehives, Anthills and Other Metaphors for Organizations
M20 Articulating OD’s Value Proposition in a Difficult Economy: What’s the Most Compelling Story?
M21 Renewing Nokia’s Culture and Values: Web 2.0 to Support Change
Track: Strengthening Organizations Through Diversity
M22 Restructuring Under African Skies
Track: Expanding Leadership Capacity
M23 Front-Line Management Success: Training as a Change Strategy
M24 Leadership Development or Munchausen’s Pigtail?
Group 3: 10:30 – 12:00 pm
Track: Facilitating Systemic Change
T01 From System Blindness to System Sight: Torn up in the Middle
T15 Network Power: How Organizations Can Benefit from Growing and Harvesting Informal Networks
T03 Use of Self-Organization Concepts to Improve Use of Self
T04 Paradox: The Gestalt Approach to Change Management
T05 Power, Authenticity and the Internal Consultant
T06 The Businessperson’s Search for Meaning—Keeping Your Sanity, Sense of Humor, and Soul in the Workplace
T07 Organizational Relationship Optimization: Application of Attachment Theory to Organization Development
T08 Practitioner as Instrument: Developing and Extending Presence
T09 Student Paper and Presentation Session
T10 20 X 20: A Pecha Kucha Throwdown for New and Emerging Practitioners
Track: Strengthening Organizations Through Diversity
T11 Are Teams the Ultimate Diversity Initiative?
Track: Expanding Leadership Capacity
T12 Help! My Team is Stuck: The Elusiveness of Team High Performance
T13 Planning for Budapest: The 2010 OD World Summit and the Future of Global OD
Group 4: 3:00 – 4:15 pm
Track: Facilitating Systemic Change
T14 Building Organizational Capability at Dell
T02Get Out of Your Own Way! Making Room for Organization Success
T16 An OD History Lesson: The History and Contributions of Douglas McGregor
T17 Appreciative Inquiry: Conversations for Change
T18 Lessons from the Field: How to Successfully Coach a Positive Deviance Initiative
T19 Pioneer Spirit: Leadership Development Through The Way of the Horse
Track: Strengthening Organizations Through Diversity
T20 Facilitating Change in Diverse Communities
T21 Strategic Diversity: Diversity Action Learning Teams
Track: Expanding Leadership Capacity
T22 Today’s Critical Leadership Barrier: “I Can’t Retire. They Aren’t Ready.”
T23 Executive Team Coaching: New Approaches for OD Practitioners
T24 Partners in Healthcare Delivery: Labor-Management Partnership for Results and Front-Line Empowerment
T25 Can Visual Language Help With Social Messes, aka “Wicked Problems?”
Group 5: 8:45 – 10:15
Track: Facilitating Systemic Change
W01 Institutional Strategies for Sustainable Development
W02 Using Evaluative Inquiry to Leverage Change within Complex Human Systems
W03 Enabling OD Practitioners to Maximize Alignment
W04 Old Wine/New Bottles: Integrating a Familiar OD Process into a New Format
W05 Stop, Reflect & Check: Organizational Design Collaboration
W06 A Visual Language and Framework for Organization Design and Diagnosis
W07 Capitalizing on Connections—Leveraging Social Networks for Strategic Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness
Track: Strengthening Organizations Through Diversity
W08 Talkin’ About My Generation: Strategies for Fully Engaging Generations X and Y
Track: Expanding Leadership Capacity
W09 Leader as Facilitator
W10 Keepin’ it Weird: Open Space, Austin Style